Neuroendocrine cancer that starts in the liver is extremely rare, and little is known about how to best manage it. It tends to develop slowly and usually isn’t diagnosed until it’s in a late ...

A tumor is a growth that develops when damage to a cell’s DNA causes it to copy itself excessively, forming a mass. Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) can be either malignant, meaning they can grow ...

Study Design The team reviewed 53 patients with NETs treated at the University of Chicago's NET program from 2019 to 2021. For the 53 patients, a total of 1069 liver lesions were debulked with a ...

Patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) often have cancer spread to the liver, making liver-directed therapies necessary to address the metastases, especially when surgery isn’t possible ...

It was a neuroendocrine tumor, fueled by hormones, growing out of control. The massive tumor was lethally crowding Banos' stomach. Removing two-thirds of a liver is extremely risky.

Neuroendocrine neoplasms comprise a highly diverse spectrum of tumors that are classified on the basis of their primary site of origin and their pathology (differentiation and grading; Table 1).

In 2023, ASCO published a guideline on systemic therapy for tumor control in well-differentiated metastatic grade 1 to grade 3 (G1-G3) GI and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs; Fig 1). 1 This ...